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pebble

pebble

5 definitions found for pebble

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
     mote. See Stone.]
     1. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn
        and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The
        pebbles on the hungry beach." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
                                                    --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
        pebble; -- so called by opticians.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
        grains.
  
     Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
        etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pebble \Peb"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Pebbling.]
     To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with
     small rounded prominences.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

  pebble
      n 1: a small smooth rounded rock

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "pebble":
     ace, asphalt, atom, bit, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement,
     checkstone, cobblestone, concrete, dab, dole, dot, drakestone,
     dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fingerstone, flag, fleck,
     floor, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, gravelstone,
     groat, hair, handful, iota, jackstone, jot, little, little bit,
     metal, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
     nutshell, ounce, particle, pave, pebblestone, pinch, pittance,
     point, scruple, slingstone, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot,
     tar, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whit
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :

  Pebble
  
     A polymorphic language.
  
     ["A Kernel Language for Abstract Data Types and Modules",
     R.M. Burstall & B. Lampson, in Semantics of Data Types, LNCS
     173, Springer 1984].
  
     (1995-01-26)